New Zealand presents Africa Fashion Festival

Share

Africa Fashion Festival is an event that celebrates Africa’s vibrant and diverse culture and incredible creativity in New Zealand through fashion and art forms such as dance and music. New Zealand’s inaugural Africa Fashion Festival will celebrate the continent’s vibrant and diverse emerging fashion industries.

Africa Fashion Festival will promote, educate and highlight Africa’s creative industry by giving festival attendees a one of a kind experience and a different perspective of the Continent of Africa. Another important focus of the event is the promotion of top and emerging African designers and artists and empowering first and second generation Africans in New Zealand to connect with, embrace and proudly share their culture.

The founding director of the Africa Fashion Festival is Ghanaian born Pinaman Owusu-Banahene who has called New Zealand home for over eleven years. Pinaman has a strong interest in public policy, philanthropy and fashion. In 2011, she launched a social enterprise organisation, ADJOAA, which offers an avenue that combines all three passions to give emerging African designers and artists a platform to showcase their talent and to create opportunities for them in the creative industry. She now is the head of the upcoming festival to be held in Auckland, New Zealand from 7-10 May 2015 and then onto Wellington, from 14-17th May 2015.

A key differentiator of Africa Fashion Festival is that it is an ethical initiative with a strong focus on development – think fashion for development. The festival will support three key social initiatives for young Africans in New Zealand and across parts of Africa, in collaboration with the designers:

a mentoring programme for young African women in New Zealand to empower them to be more engaged in the community.

a three-month internship for a talented African fashion design graduate to intern with participating designers of the Africa Fashion Festival NZ in New Zealand and/or Africa.

supporting education through the launch of a book club initiative in selected schools with the participating designers in their home country.

Share this:

Join the Family!

FAB Workshops

Fashion Africa Business Workshops
Register NOW!

African Cotton Campaign

About Africa Fashion Guide

AfricaFashionGuide is an information based platform for fashion professionals, students, retailers, magazines, bloggers and all those interested in African fashion and textiles. It was birthed with the focus to create an awareness campaign that promotes the full supply chain of the African fashion and textile industry with an ethical perspective and create links with the greater global textile industry.

We aim to be your No.1 link to the business of fashion and textiles in Africa.

IS THIS YOU???. You’re a fashion business owner. You desire to expand your African sourcing strategy and don’t know how to make it happen. You feel overwhelmed with where to produce in Africa and not knowing whom...

Being champions for African Fashion here at Africa Fashion Guide, an enterprise who promotes what is African made and encourages fashion brands to source fashion made in Africa but a recent video on Facebook posted by a young l...

TogetherNess – The idea was to connect with Ugandan creatives and highlight the beauty of the country’s creative industry. We believe in: Buy Ugandan, build Uganda! BY BEATRACE ANGUT OOLA. Originally featured on Fashion A...

0 Comments

Be the first to comment!

Follow Blog via Email

Like our Facebook Page

ABOUT Africa Fashion Guide

Africa Fashion Guide is a sourcing and production consultancy and platform which promotes the full supply chain of the African fashion and textile industry to the greater global textile industry. It is a one stop shop linking African designers, craftspeople, manufacturers and textile designers, and more, with UK and EU fashion design companies and consumer markets, as well as with retailers worldwide.

The Africa Fashion Guide website aims to be THE platform for fashion and textile business in Africa, providing information and news on the full supply chain of the African fashion and textiles industry.

Latest Tweets

Africa Fashion Guide will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you with our latest blogs and also our newsletters updates about our promotions and special offers. Your information will *never* be shared or sold to a 3rd party.